Top off the weekend with fantastic shows.

Weekend movies at Sidewalk Cinema

Movies are playing every Thursday through Sunday at the Sidewalk Cinema. This weekend, see movies like “The Tragedy of Macbeth,” “Italian Studies,” “Torn” and “La Liste: Everything or Nothing.” Scroll down to the poster image and learn more about each screening, dates, times and how to purchase tickets. Before you attend the event, read the cinema’s COVID-19 safety procedures and protocols at the bottom of each poster. For upcoming events, visit sidewalkfest.com. 

‘9 to 5 The Musical’

One of the most hilarious stories of friendship and revenge in the era of the Rolodex is being performed through Sunday, Feb. 6, at Virginia Samford Theatre. With music and lyrics by Dolly Parton and from the book by Patricia Resnick, the production is based on the seminal 1980 hit movie by the same name. Pushed to the boiling point, three female co-workers concoct a plan to get even with the sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical bigot they call their boss. Tickets for the outrageous and thought-provoking musical can be purchased online at virginiasamford.org.

Alabama Dance Festival

As one of the largest gatherings of dancers and dance enthusiasts in the Southeast, the Alabama Dance Festival in Birmingham will immerse you in master classes with world-renowned teachers, audition opportunities, teacher training, networking, performances by regional dance groups and two guest companies, Bodytraffic and staibdance. The Alabama Dance Festival will take place in a hybrid format with virtual and in-person components through Sunday, Jan. 23. Visit the website for times and locations.

Experience Native American art

“Voices So True: New Native American Art” at the Birmingham Museum of Art features the work of seven contemporary Native American artists. Ranging in media from photographs and paintings to prints and basketry, the works explore subjects including history and identity, environmental justice, healing from illness and violence, and giving voice to the voiceless. The seven featured artists – Kay WalkingStick, Wendy Red Star, Norman Akers, Eugene Tapahe, Zoe Marieh Urness, Shan Goshorn and Larry McNeil – are affiliated with different tribal nations, including Cherokee, Navajo, Osage, Crow and Tlingit. In her series “1880 Crow Peace Delegation,” Star adds handwritten text to a group of historic photographic portraits of Crow leaders – images over which the sitters had no control and were appropriated into popular culture. Akers’ prints explore the perception of encounters between invading European colonists and Native Americans, and a painting by WalkingStick evokes the heroic voyage of Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce people who tried to walk to freedom. A basket by Goshorn expresses support for the protesters at Standing Rock and draws attention to the issue of environmental justice among the Eastern Band Cherokee. Photographs from Tapahe’s epic “Art Heals: The Jingle Dress Project” document an artist’s vision and action to bring healing during the pandemic. All of the works in the exhibit were recently acquired for the museum’s permanent collection with the support of a generous bequest from the late Dr. Clyde Oyster, a UAB professor and research scientist and a longtime docent and volunteer at the Birmingham Museum of Art. The title of the exhibition is inspired by the writings of Joy Harjo, a member of the Muscogee Nation and the first Native American Poet Laureate of the U.S. See “Voices So True” through Sunday, Jan. 30 at the Birmingham Museum of Art.

‘Voices So True’ includes a virtual walkthrough. (Birmingham Museum of Art)

‘Faces of Vietnam’ exhibit

The exhibit is through Friday, Feb. 11 at the Alabama Center for the Arts in Decatur. Curated by attorney Stephen Humphreys from his travels throughout Vietnam, most of the collection is from the post Đổi Mới (Reform) era of the 1990s. Through the exhibit, Humphreys strives to answer the question: “What is the real Vietnam, and what is the face it shows the world?” The exhibit includes works from leading contemporary Vietnamese artists of the post-reform period in traditional and contemporary media, such as oil paintings, lacquer and woodblock prints. See the exhibit Monday through Thursday from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. and Friday from 8 a.m. to noon.

Winter Wednesdays

Workshops are underway at Bellingrath Gardens and Home in Theodore. Each workshop covers a special feature of the gardens or home, tips for making your garden more spectacular or guest lectures from renowned members of the horticultural and gardening world. Sessions are 10:30 a.m. until 11:30 a.m. Winter Wednesdays are included in gardens admission. Reservations are requested for each program.

• Jan. 26 – Guest speaker: Carleton Woo.
• Feb. 2 – Guest speaker: Judson LeCompte.

To learn more about each program, call 251-459-8868, email bellingrath@bellingrath.org or visit the website.